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		<title>Public School- Preparing kids for a life without privacy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article at the privacy rights website Pogo Was Right (“U.S. Schools: Grooming Students for a Surveillance State,” August 28) argues that schools are “grooming youth to passively accept a surveillance state where they have no expectation of privacy anywhere.” Privacy violations include “surveilling students in their bedrooms via webcam … random drug or locker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adler&#8217;s Defense of a General Education is Lost on Modern Readers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to fully understand what Mortimer Adler is talking about in his essay General Education vs Vocational Education, we must understand the historical and cultural context from which he is speaking. Modern readers who misunderstand this context are likely to misinterpret his intentions and thereby fail to see the logic behind his recommendations, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sponge, Computer or incomprehensible blob of amazingness?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two metaphors that have evolved to reflect the workings of the human mind are “a child&#8217;s brain is like a sponge” and “the brain is like a computer.” Although well-intentioned, the limitations of these models have resulted in educational practices that fail to address the true nature of how children learn, and subsequently lend themselves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Write something, win something</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Unschooling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Unschooler&#8217;s Emporium is having a drawing for $50 worth of products from their site. They sell unschooling related Tshirts, paintings, books, eBooks, and other products made by unschoolers, for unschoolers. To enter the drawing, submit an original article, to be published on their blog, using one of the following topics: - What does Unschooling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Valedictorian speaks out against schooling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t read Erica Goldson&#8217;s Valedictorian speech, go check it out.  Basically, she &#8220;calls out&#8221; the insane practice of institutionalized education, as she experienced it. SIDE NOTE- Kelly Hallordson, an unschooling mom and blogger, was able to sit down with Erica shortly after this speech hit the interwebs and recorded their conversation, at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you that parent?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Unschooling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are you the one who breaks the conventional parenting wisdom and just lets your kids be kids?  You&#8217;re in good company.  When Flo Gascon confessed that she&#8217;s the mom who let her kids eat ice cream for breakfast, unschoolers from all over the world fought over who got the &#8220;That mom&#8221; title.  Soon, I imagine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free John Taylor Gatto book &#8211; The Underground History of American Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know a lot of people have been passing around The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought? It&#8217;s a good thing, the post is informative and enlightening. But it&#8217;s just the tip of the iceberg.  It&#8217;s part of John Taylor Gatto&#8217;s The Underground History of American Education, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honoring Adult Learning Styles</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Learning from Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I used to tease my husband because when he shops, it&#8217;s like he&#8217;s paying a social visit to the salesman. He actually gets to know them a bit. While I&#8217;m trying to compare features, specifications and energy usage he&#8217;ll be chatting away with the salesman. I, on the other hand, don&#8217;t trust salesmen. I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Public School Nightmare Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.theorganizedunschooler.com/the-public-school-nightmare-why-fix-a-system-designed-to-destroy-individual-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by John Taylor Gatto from The Underground History of American Education I want you to consider the frightening possibility that we are spending far too much money on schooling, not too little. I want you to consider that we have too many people employed in interfering with the way children grow up – and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning from TV and Videos</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Learning from Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Dayna Martin&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t Kill your TV&#8221; she makes an excellent case for TV&#8217;s benign existence, as a tool rather than a menace: This window into possibility and potential is an such an amazing tool in our lives and one that I can&#8217;t imagine living without. There is a lot of anger surrounding television in [...]]]></description>
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